Home / Housing disputes / Privatization of a garage in a garage cooperative: procedure, general information
Owning your own garage is the cherished goal of many car owners and business owners. However, as long as the garage belongs to the state or a garage-building cooperative (GSK), you will not be able to make the garage your own. Therefore, today the privatization of a garage in GSK is becoming increasingly popular.
Private ownership of a building provides undeniable advantages - this includes the opportunity to sell, rent, bequeath, donate or mortgage a garage. As soon as a building becomes private property, it falls under state protection. Let's look at the procedure and nuances of privatizing a garage in GSK according to the new rules.
You can also familiarize yourself with the nuances of the procedure for ordinary real estate - in the article “How to privatize an apartment, housing?”
✅ Is it possible and necessary to privatize a garage in a garage cooperative?
The organization of garage-building cooperatives in the Soviet era had a clear focus - to allow citizens to use garages. Despite some restrictions, such buildings passed from hand to hand. Moreover, the object of transfer was not only the garage, but also the land plot under the foundation.
Now there is a so-called cooperative membership . Participants use garages and make share contributions to the general fund of the cooperative. The status of a member of the GSK allows you to privatize a building on the basis of two provisions: Federal Law No. 93 or, simply, “dacha amnesty” and Law No. 1541-1 of July 4, 1991.
If a shareholder decides to register ownership of the garage, he will become not only the manager of the building, but also the owner of a share in the common property of the cooperative. Land, unlike a garage, cannot be the object of privatization - it belongs to the state or municipal associations.
